French Coca-Cola workers at the Clamart production site obtained an overall salary increase of 4.5% last Saturday 26 April, according to CFDT representative Christian Jurcenoks. The raise includes an overall increase of 3.2%, with the remaining 1.3% depending on merit. This increase is an offer that hasn't been negotiated unions with and will be subject to a review in October should inflation be higher overall increase.

Industrial action at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CEE) operations in France continues at the Northern sites of Dunquerque, Grigny and Clamart. Growing unrest is reported in other sites but has not yet led to a strike. The CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGT unions demand that CCE management :

(1) reopens good faith negotiations with unions around wages at a national level, not in a site-by-site, union-by-union divisive way

(2) extends the concession of a 4% wage increase and 80€ monthly bonus that accepted at its Marseille site to the rest of CEE facilities in France

The French unions FO, CFDT and CFTC jointly launched industrial action on 17 April at the Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) production site of Bierne-Socx. Strikers demand a 6% raise on top of additional 80 €

Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc (CCBPI) had denied the right to regular employment to seven workers and their subsequent dismissal was deemed illegal. This has set a crucial precedent for 14 separate legal cases filed by unions affiliated to the IUF. Together these cases cover the illegal dismissal of more than 900 union members.

In July 2001 Coca-Cola Philippines
management issued an internal memo to all HR managers to freeze all
hiring of regular workers. That freeze continues today as literally
thousands of 5-month contract workers are rotated through the bottling
plants. This practice is now the subject of a Supreme Court Case, with
many more cases in the pipeline.

Neville Isdell, chief executive of
Coca-Cola, has criticised corporate leaders for not speaking out
against protectionism, warning that the failure of big business to
convince politicians and public opinion of the benefits of free trade
will harm global growth and companies’ profits.